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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-04-14 21:43:54 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-04-14 21:43:56 +0930
commit091ebf07a2408f9a56634caa0f86d9360e9af23b (patch)
tree62d3b3424cc1c0dc71b3b750bb1e8e063e658fd3 /arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
parent5094aeafbbd500509f648e3cd102b053bc7926b3 (diff)
lguest: stop using KVM hypercall mechanism
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2a159 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls"; we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for hypercalls. I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the same calling convention as kvm. KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm fails to make hypercalls. It was nice to share code with our KVM cousins, but this was overreach. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h29
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
index ba0eed8aa1a6..b60f2924c413 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
@@ -28,22 +28,39 @@
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <asm/hw_irq.h>
-#include <asm/kvm_para.h>
/*G:030
* But first, how does our Guest contact the Host to ask for privileged
* operations? There are two ways: the direct way is to make a "hypercall",
* to make requests of the Host Itself.
*
- * We use the KVM hypercall mechanism, though completely different hypercall
- * numbers. Seventeen hypercalls are available: the hypercall number is put in
- * the %eax register, and the arguments (when required) are placed in %ebx,
- * %ecx, %edx and %esi. If a return value makes sense, it's returned in %eax.
+ * Our hypercall mechanism uses the highest unused trap code (traps 32 and
+ * above are used by real hardware interrupts). Seventeen hypercalls are
+ * available: the hypercall number is put in the %eax register, and the
+ * arguments (when required) are placed in %ebx, %ecx, %edx and %esi.
+ * If a return value makes sense, it's returned in %eax.
*
* Grossly invalid calls result in Sudden Death at the hands of the vengeful
* Host, rather than returning failure. This reflects Winston Churchill's
* definition of a gentleman: "someone who is only rude intentionally".
-:*/
+ */
+static inline unsigned long
+hcall(unsigned long call,
+ unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
+ unsigned long arg4)
+{
+ /* "int" is the Intel instruction to trigger a trap. */
+ asm volatile("int $" __stringify(LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY)
+ /* The call in %eax (aka "a") might be overwritten */
+ : "=a"(call)
+ /* The arguments are in %eax, %ebx, %ecx, %edx & %esi */
+ : "a"(call), "b"(arg1), "c"(arg2), "d"(arg3), "S"(arg4)
+ /* "memory" means this might write somewhere in memory.
+ * This isn't true for all calls, but it's safe to tell
+ * gcc that it might happen so it doesn't get clever. */
+ : "memory");
+ return call;
+}
/* Can't use our min() macro here: needs to be a constant */
#define LGUEST_IRQS (NR_IRQS < 32 ? NR_IRQS: 32)